Saint Joseph's Hospital in Baltimore is the subject of a Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission investigation regarding numerous possibly unnecessary heart stent procedures.

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Medical Malpractice

6/5/2010
Robert V. Clark
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Baltimore Hospital Stent Investigation Amazing!

Reports of 100's of unnecessary heart stent invasive procedures have been coming out of St. Joseph's Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland for a while now. Plaintiff's attorneys have flocked to garner as many cases as possible.

The Baltimore Sun has reported extensively on this topic and has a couple of excellent articles which illuminate the legal avalanche that is likely to ensue and the history of the uncovering of the apparent excessive stent implantation at St. Joseph's Medical Center.

A curious aspect of all this is that the heart stents can't be removed. For more see: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-stent-investigation-20100605,0,6799806.story 


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